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A Design Geek’s Space Race: Meatball vs. Worm

NASA is bringing back its groovy, curvilinear logo from 1975, the one beloved by graphic designers—and by Ariana Grande, Walter Cronkite, and BTS.

The Slaves and Civil War Soldiers Buried a Few Five-Irons from Ivana Trump

Just outside Trump National Golf Club, in New Jersey, is a forgotten Black cemetery among the estates of Pfizers, Scribners, Forbeses, and Onassises.

A Trash-Eating Sea Monster Appears in the Hudson!

A team of scientists and environmentalists tests out the WasteShark, an unmanned watercraft that vacuums up soda cans and potato-chip bags.

A Landscape Shared by Native Americans and the One Per Cent

The Shinnecock photographer Jeremy Dennis was inspired by Noam Chomsky’s view of zombie movies when he set out to tell the long and violent story of his peoples’ stolen homeland.

An Expedition to New York Harbor’s Secret, Transient Island

Six explorers drop anchor at Oyster Island, a tiny speck of land near the Statue of Liberty that emerges from the depths only during unusually low tides, when the moon is full and close.

Weather Nerds of New Jersey

From the altocumulus clouds over the Trump Plaza implosion to the warm winter temperatures (it was the state’s twenty-ninth-mildest January on record), there’s lots to talk about.

Careful How You Hate on Philadelphia

How we think about a failure to social-distance in the 1918 pandemic affects how we deal with it today.

The Exhibit That Painted Itself

The artist Pat Steir’s “Silent Secret Waterfalls,” commissioned by the Barnes Foundation, is a series of large oil-on-canvas drip paintings in which the paint works almost on its own.

The Joy of a Musical Session

These weekly get-togethers, where musicians play old fiddle tunes and sing an occasional song, inspired me, whetting my musical appetite and tuning my soul.

Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter

The artist’s new three-part show is based on a ballet, an opera, and clips of Judy Garland’s wardrobe test for “Valley of the Dolls.”

A Film About the Painter Rackstraw Downes

The filmmaker, Rima Yamazaki, agreed to the artist’s parameters and managed to be unobtrusive, despite how close she brought her camera to the painter.

A Confederate General in Brooklyn

New Orleans took down memorials last month, but New York still has an avenue—and a tree—honoring Robert E. Lee.

A Design Geek’s Space Race: Meatball vs. Worm

NASA is bringing back its groovy, curvilinear logo from 1975, the one beloved by graphic designers—and by Ariana Grande, Walter Cronkite, and BTS.

The Slaves and Civil War Soldiers Buried a Few Five-Irons from Ivana Trump

Just outside Trump National Golf Club, in New Jersey, is a forgotten Black cemetery among the estates of Pfizers, Scribners, Forbeses, and Onassises.

A Trash-Eating Sea Monster Appears in the Hudson!

A team of scientists and environmentalists tests out the WasteShark, an unmanned watercraft that vacuums up soda cans and potato-chip bags.

A Landscape Shared by Native Americans and the One Per Cent

The Shinnecock photographer Jeremy Dennis was inspired by Noam Chomsky’s view of zombie movies when he set out to tell the long and violent story of his peoples’ stolen homeland.

An Expedition to New York Harbor’s Secret, Transient Island

Six explorers drop anchor at Oyster Island, a tiny speck of land near the Statue of Liberty that emerges from the depths only during unusually low tides, when the moon is full and close.

Weather Nerds of New Jersey

From the altocumulus clouds over the Trump Plaza implosion to the warm winter temperatures (it was the state’s twenty-ninth-mildest January on record), there’s lots to talk about.

Careful How You Hate on Philadelphia

How we think about a failure to social-distance in the 1918 pandemic affects how we deal with it today.

The Exhibit That Painted Itself

The artist Pat Steir’s “Silent Secret Waterfalls,” commissioned by the Barnes Foundation, is a series of large oil-on-canvas drip paintings in which the paint works almost on its own.

The Joy of a Musical Session

These weekly get-togethers, where musicians play old fiddle tunes and sing an occasional song, inspired me, whetting my musical appetite and tuning my soul.

Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter

The artist’s new three-part show is based on a ballet, an opera, and clips of Judy Garland’s wardrobe test for “Valley of the Dolls.”

A Film About the Painter Rackstraw Downes

The filmmaker, Rima Yamazaki, agreed to the artist’s parameters and managed to be unobtrusive, despite how close she brought her camera to the painter.

A Confederate General in Brooklyn

New Orleans took down memorials last month, but New York still has an avenue—and a tree—honoring Robert E. Lee.